How to format your references using the Language Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Language Policy. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Benderly, B. L. (2005). Not your father’s postdoc. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5722), 717–718.

A journal article with 2 authors

Acemoglu, D., & Robinson, J. (2009). Economics. Foundations of societal inequality. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5953), 678–679.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pham, T. C. T., Kim, H. S., & Yoon, K. B. (2011). Growth of uniformly oriented silica MFI and BEA zeolite films on substrates. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6062), 1533–1538.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhou, P., Ross, R. A., Pywell, C. M., Liangpunsakul, S., & Duffield, G. E. (2014). Disturbances in the murine hepatic circadian clock in alcohol-induced hepatic steatosis. Scientific reports, 4, 3725.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Guzik, A. (2013). Essentials for Occupational Health Nursing. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Deutsch, A., Brusch, L., Byrne, H., Vries, G. de, & Herzel, H. (Eds.). (2007). Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems, Volume I: Cellular Biophysics, Regulatory Networks, Development, Biomedicine, and Data Analysis. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Limpouchová, Z., & Procházka, K. (2016). Theoretical Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy. In K. Procházka (Ed.), Fluorescence Studies of Polymer Containing Systems (pp. 91–149). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Language Policy.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2016, June 29). Arctic Forests Remember The Ice Age. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. (2008). Information Technology: FBI Is Implementing Key Acquisition Methods on Its New Case Management System, but Related Agencywide Guidance Needs to Be Improved (No. GAO-08-1014). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Karasik, B. A. (2015). Tele-collaboration in theatre: Collaboration mgmt tools in a digital and globalized age (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Woolfe, Z. (2013, May 2). The Newest Russia House. New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Benderly 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Acemoglu and Robinson 2009; Benderly 2005).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Acemoglu and Robinson 2009)
Three or more authors: (Zhou et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Language Policy
Abbreviation	Lang. Policy
ISSN (print)	1568-4555
ISSN (online)	1573-1863
Scope	Language and Linguistics Linguistics and Language Sociology and Political Science